Our motivation to join Building Sustainable Communities: Leadership, Gender and the Environment

LBI understand that promoting environment awareness among community people is a key to create sustainable development community. Hence, LBI focuses on various community environment actions such
as Community Environment Workshop, Environment classes in a community school, environment seminar for sharing 3R concepts and collective community greening actions like Korogocho Greenbelt
Movement and Clean-up actions. LBI's main target is empowerment of women and children, core people for sustainable future. This environment training program is a good opportunity for LBI leaders,
especially for women leaders, to sharpen their ideas and enhance leadership and community skill for leading to a successful mission.

Income
generating actions (women empowerment)

LBI organizes ‘Korogocho Smart Women Group" for establishing sustainable life style, especially, for single mothers and women
infected with HIV under the initiative of LBI Chair, Florence. LBI provides a skill-up training program for women groups in order to improve the process of producing quality products, ensuring
their economic status.

Reproductive
Health (RH) projects and care actions

LBI in collaboration with Korogocho Medical officers holds the RH seminars to improve women health and prevent HIV rate of infection
as well as distribute free HIV check kits.

Education
projects for street children

LBI empowers street children by supporting their education, preventing child labor as well as distributing school stationeries to
children, through the management of Amani (Peace)Education Ceter, a local community school, with Head Teacher Michael (LBI board), LBI provides quality education to all the street children in
Korogocho. In addition, LBI conducts feeding projects in the school and set up HOPE FUND to encourage them to complete at least high school education.

Environment
improvement actions
(“One Million
Clean Up Actions”)

Environment in Korogoch is very vulnerable. It is a trash-strewn community with bad smell. To change the situation, LBI holds the
environment seminars by introducing Japanese Philosophy “Mottanai” to people in Korogocho and coordinates grass-roots clean-up actions, too.

(“Mottainai” is Japanese term conveying a sense of regret concerning waste.)

Korogocho Greenbelt Movement

Planting trees is a simple solution to mitigating climate change with enriching biodiversity. Trees absorb CO2, reduce soil erosion, produce life-giving oxygen, provide habitat for wildlife, and
are a legacy for future generation. Under the patronage of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. Professor Wangari Maathai, the billion tree campaign is raising awareness of the interdependence of
humankind and the planet's ecosystems, as well as the links between tree planting and climate change mitigation, the restoration of biodiversity, air and soil quality, and food security.

"Mottainai" Environment Seminar

LBI opens more than 10 times of Environment seminar for encouraging community people to promote sustainable environment movement in Korogocho and grows up Community Environment Workers (CEWs)
with over 100 community participants at each time in collaboration with NGO African Children Education Fund (ACEF). The seminar focus on the measure to promote understanding of organic
environment components, sustainable waste management and organic compost by recycling household garbage.

※"Mottainai" is an ancient term from Japan that means to have respect for the resources around you, to not waste resources, and to use them with a sense of gratitude. The concept is closely
associated with the conservation practices that people most commonly recognize as the three R's - reduce, reuse, recycle - with a fourth R for respect. In Kenya, the Mottainai campaign was
initiated by Professor Maathai to eliminate waste plastic from littering the natural environment. GBM's campaign has successfully influenced government policy changes against the production and
use of very thin plastic materials that are un-recyclable.

CEW workshops

LBI targets at educating and growing up around 40 CEWs for this year with the concept of "Think Globally, Act Locally" in collaboration with Kenya Organic Agriculture Network (KOAN). CEWs are
supposed to play a vital role of community environment projects. In the session, around 30 CEWs join it and share the environment concept and Korogocho Greenbelt movement action. Environment is a
core for changing community life style in informal sectors like slum as a powerful tool. To create a sustainable community for future generation, LBI is working with CEWs.

Clean up actions

Clean up actions is a basic method for collective community actions for enhancing environment awareness among community people. LBI coordinates and implements clean-up actions with community
people to mitigate air, soil and water pollution by mismanagement of waste cycle in Korogocho.

Environment Education Class

LBI is promoting environment education at a community school in Korogocho. This is a joint program for Amani Education Center and Big Pen Academy. Teacher Michael, a head teacher of Amani
Education Center and LBI Board, is initiating this project.

Community
Radio Program (Koch FM)

LBI is collaborating with Koch FM (the first community radio program in Kenya) shares valuable information about quality of life with
people. Ezra, LBI board, is a Koch FM coordinator.

Charity actions and promoting mutual understanding

LBI shortens the distance between Kenya and Japan through cultural exchange events and charity
actions. LBI makes Africa closer to international society.

African Development Seminar and International Forum at TICAD

LBI opens the seminar for understanding African situation. On 28th of August, 2016, LBI managed TICAD VI official side event on "Strengthening resilience of African community for sustainable
development" in collaboration with UNEP, Red Cross and JICA in Nairobi. In June, 2015, LBI held the seminar of "Issues of Sustainable Development in Kenya from Peace and Environment Perspective"
with Prof. Mungai from University of Nairobi and Mr. Kobayashi from Keio University at United Nations University supported by Embassy of the republic of Kenya.

Exchange program with Tohoku disaster area in Japan.

LBI create good practices by building the bridge between people in Tohoku disaster areas in Japan and people in Korogocho through
sharing experience, knowledge and ideas on community development in both areas.